By What Means? - The Truth of Unconditional Love

Jonathan | June 13, 2005

By What Dearest MeansDid Arwen Sacrifice her life?My senses acutely keenhow do I admit my strife?How can I express my love?How should I suppress distrust?When do I have pity ofthis self-destructing, loathe, ring-lust?

By what greatest MeansDid Bilbo give up his pity?Though all the goblin-teamsseem stacked against him one to fiftyAnd how did Gollum escape the riddleswith but an empty hand so frail and brittle?And how did Bilbo find his heart?How did he leave without a starton the life of warriors who bring but painto helpless souls and men restrained?

By whose most marvelous designsdid Elrond give up one whom he loved?And still, though against him were the signshow did he manage to Arwen give up?And how do I just sit here nowwondering what rhymes and howto express unconditional love so clearthat none may believe I don't hold dearthe things inside my mortal shelleven that which is so hard and fell.

But that unconditional love was given meand that true, terrestrial thought was indeedthe hopeless demise of my own false truthsso that all that remains is no longer uncouth.

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